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Q: my e-bike has been impounded/confiscated on Jan.16/2014- what now?
zhanjiang, guangdong..... they now have rules/laws? ......wife was coming home in the bike lane, on the wrong side.... has no driver's license..... they took the bike and probably a couple hundred more ......nobody has a license and everybody drives wherever they damned well please......Imagine China with laws and rules on the road..... Oh my God!
I want to go buy all the impounded bikes for 200RMB and resell for 3-400RMB ...get them back on the road.. guessing somebody has beat me to it.
10 years 15 weeks ago in Transport & Travel - China
if you bought it used, they require the original receipt from the original owner to get it back from impound in some provinces, better to buy a stolen one just outside the city limits and start over.
Good riddance! I hope all the bikes get confiscated and destroyed. Those bastards on their ebikes run rampant, and i dont know what it is, but as soon as they get on the damned thing they all stop fearing death completely.
Nessquick:
very perfect description. best are the guys, who have implanted those huge exhausts on their thiny one, so when they pass by, you thing it was F16 , but than you see it Xmass tree on the wheels ...
TedDBayer:
In Guilin was told that loud exhausts gets a ticket, I wonder if the Chinese know that you usually need a carb jet change when you do that.
hiddenjelly:
Agree, countless times they have nearly hit my car whilst I have been going along. They think they own the road and if they get hit they are the first to cast blame onto the other road users!
The fact the OP even said she was driving in the wrong direction leaves even more claim to that!
OP: Please teach your wife/GF to be more courteous and respect the road rules in the future, car drivers DO get fined and have points deducted if we commit an error on the road and likewise your wife/GF should equally be punished for not obeying traffic laws, the simplest of which is driving the right way!
Here in shanghai is a very common picture. Polica stay with one or 2 flat bed trucks on the big crossroad, and picking up those ebike drivers without helmet, together with those 20-50ccm engine bikes which without plate, without driving licence and other offences. you may very likely to see the 2 trucks are fully loaded in a matter of 2 hrs... and day by day ...
dandmcd:
They do this in Guangzhou in the Haizhu district as well with the ebikes and go-kart taxis. I love it seeing justice served, I don't know how many times I have almost been ran over hopping off the bus and an ebike comes zooming by, or how they like to block the exit of the subway and leave just enough space for you to barely squeeze through. Those qho abuse the system are what makes it do dangerous and so bad, so when the police actually show some semblance of enforcement, it will be safer and better for everyone.
Learn the lesson (you, your wife, or both), buy a new e-bike, and drive on the correct lane. While you are at it, stop at the red light, before the white line painted on the road, rather than in the middle of the cross-road. Less lives lost, less family drama that a bit og common sense and civil behavior can easily avoid. China with actual rule of the law, great day, welcome to civilization.
masonk:
Taiwan is a good example of this.. Majority of people wear helmets and follow traffic laws, unlike Mainland China..
DrMonkey:
Even in freak'in Vietnam they managed to put a helmet on the head of *everybody*. How they did that ? Government sponsored helmets : 10K VND. Caught without helmet, pay 100K VND and they keep the bike. Apply that systematically. Within 6 months, everybody have an helmet. That's what happen when you have balls.
Does eBikes require a license ? I'll be dammed.
Nessquick:
In shanghai they require the registration plate at least for your ebike. some people may run without luckily for years, some for hours ... 
E-bikes (and small scooters) are definitely the scourge of my little city. With public buses terminating service at 5:30pm daily, and taxis refusing to service the outskirts, many people turn to e-bikes. They whiz in and out of the bike lane, into car traffic, wrong direction, etc. Only stop for red lights if there are traffic police there to enforce the rules....and then only if they don't think they can still get away with it! When they do stop, they filter up to the front of the car queue and end up slowing everyone down upon take off.
Pedestrians aren't safe either, as e-bikes are perfectly suited to blazing up and down the sidewalks just as they are playing chicken with cars. Plus, they're deadly silent, perfect for sneaking up on unsuspecting pedestrians who are just IN THE DAMN WAY *full throttle swerve and pass*!
Pretty sure around these parts, that a license PLATE is required, but not a DRIVING license. Also required are gloves permanently mounted to the grips, and big sheet of rubber or plastic to shield the legs from the wind. Optional is your choice of umbrella mount or disposable poncho.
I'm a bike/ebike/motorcycle supporter (but I don't own any of those here).
Next time you're commuting to work, take a look at all the cars on the road with just one person in them, an absolute waste in a country that can't afford the extra and unnecessary pollution and traffic congestion. Ridiculously inefficient when you think about it; a 3000 pound machine to move a 120 pound body (if that).
However, I also support that ebikes and motorcycles should also require registration and a license to operate.
mike695ca:
No one is saying that ebikes are a negative thing. Its just that ebikes IN CHINA are a negative thing. 99% of the time, the police do absolutly nothing and its the chinese me me me mindset that has created a hell storm of people that are too stupid and impatient to care about anything, including registering a bike. Countless times they hit something and then screw off. Police would never give chase , just hope a camera gets him, but the have no plates.
Also there a messed up mind set in china that these poor farmers are always right when it comes to a collision. Forget about the fact that these bikes have no business being in the fast lane, going the wrong direction. The majority of the time the driver of the car will be at least partially at fault. So these ebike riders know that all cars are scared shitless of them. So they act like idiots with immunity.
Banning ebikes works. Go to downtown guangzhou. They have the transportation in place so no motorcycles of any kind are allowed. Its heaven.
Iron_Monkey:
I agree. I support their use pending effective regulation, education, and licensing, otherwise, it's just chaos. Taiwan is a good example of good regulation of motorcycles/scooters.
However, I worked and lived in downtown Guangzhou for almost a year and Tiyu Xilu Station is far from heaven. It's nice that's there's no motorcycles, but traffic during rush hour is still an absolute mess, and the center "Zhong Xin" area around the stadium has some of the worse traffic light timing I've ever witnessed.
dom87:
and a bit away from downtown you have even "motorbike taxis" its like riding a taxi to hell
I wrote a blog here before why ebikes make sense, I'm glad they are enforcing some laws, welcome to civilization. I hate the idiots that drive on the wrong side of the road at night with no lights.
It is because of a stupid Chinese law that car drivers should have to pay for others they hit... almost automatically, if not a another car. So if an eBike rider runs into a car... then the car driver usually gets fined...
Stupid system, that needs to be fixed. If you ride an eBike... just obey the laws, get it registered (you don't need a license, just get the plate), wear a helmet and the police won't bother you. They assume that if you wear a helmet, most likely all other things are in order as well.
Who would you pull over to the check... the dude with 5 people on his bike, swerving around traffic and cutting off buses' or the guy taking it easy, with a helmet follow traffic laws and not trying to run red lights?
